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OBITUARY. 
Journal  of  the  Gynaecological  Society  of  Boston.  Devoted  to  the  advance- 
ment of  the  knowledge  of  the  diseases  of  women.  Edited  by  Winslow 
Lewis,  M.  D.,  Horatio  H.  Storer,  M.  D.  and  George  H,  Bixby,  M.  D. 
Boston  James  Campbell,  18  Tremont  street.  Yol.  i,  No.  1,  July,  1869. 
Monthly  ;  pp.  64. 
It  is  the  object  of  this  society  to  draw  a  clear  line  of  distinction  be- 
tween obstetrics  and  the  diseases  of  women,  for  the  study  of  which  the 
Gynaecological  Society  has  been  instituted.  A  physician  may  be  a  skilful 
accoucher  and  yet  be  unread  in  those  obscure  nervous  diseases  which 
afflict  women  and  cause  such  untold  suffering.  Whatever  light  can  be 
thrown  on  this  study  by  the  joint  action  of  the  earnest  members  of  the 
Society  it  is  proposed  to  publish  in  the  Journal  of  the  Gynaecological 
Society. 
Hygiene  in  its  relation  to  therapeusis,  a  paper  read  before  the  New  York 
Medical  Journal  Association  by  Alfred  L.  Carroll,  M.  D.,  &c.  New 
York,  Turner  and  Mignard,  109  Nassau  street.  1869;  pp.  37. 
Received  from  the  author. 
Treatment  of  Lachrymal  affections.  By  Prof.  Arlt,  of  the  University  of 
Yienna.  Translated  by  permission  of  the  author  by  John  P.  Weight- 
man,  M.  D,,  Pbilada.  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1869 ;  pp.  30,  with  a  litho- 
graphic plate. 
The  translator  has  done  good  service  in  giving  this  paper  of  Prof.  Arlt 
to  the  American  medical  public  in  a  form  so  serviceable. 
OBITUARY. 
M.  J.  B.  Berard,  formerly  professor  of  chemistry] to  the  faculty  of 
sciences  of  Montpellier,  France,  died  on  the  10th  of  June,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  80  years.  He  was  born  at  Montpellier,  Oct.  12,  1789. 
M.  Berard  occupied  for  many  years  the  Chair  of  Chemistry  in  the  Ecole 
de  Pharmacie  in  his  native  city,  one  of  >he  three  schools  of  pharmacy  in 
France.  He  was  dean  of  the  medical  faculty  and  member  of  various 
learned  societies,  and  at  the  same  time  owned  a  large  chemical  establish- 
ment, which  gave  him  wealth  and  independence.  He  is  described  as  a 
good  lecturer  and  very  successful  as  an  experimenter. 
Prof.  H.  E.  Dussance  died  at  his  residence,  at  New  Lebanon,  Col- 
umbia County,  New  York,  on  the  20th  of  June  last.  He  was  born  in 
Paris,  Dec.  25,  1829.  Educated  in  chemistry  as  a  student  of  Chevreul, 
he  acquired  great  proficiency,  and  so  good  a  reputation  as  to  be  appointed 
to  one  of  the  Chairs  of  industrial  chemistry  in  the  Ecole  Polyiechnique 
[Jour.  Mat.  Med.  220,  July,  1869)  Prof.  Dussance  occupied  the  position 
of  Chemist  in  Tilden  &  Co'?.  Laboratory,  and  was  one  of  the  Editors  of 
the  Journal  of  Applied  Chemistry,  and  the  Editor  of  several  other  works. 
